Database: iLuminate Takes a New Data Warehouse Tack

iLuminate Takes a New Data Warehouse Tack

by Jason Brooks

Illuminate's iLuminate 4.0 offers a new take on building data warehouses, eschewing typical relational or column-based storage models for what the company describes as a correlation database model. In my tests of iLuminate, I was impressed by the way the product enabled me to load a healthy-sized data set into the engine and, without any other organization or optimization, begin drilling arbitrarily through the data using Illuminate's analysis tool, iCorrelate. See my full review here.

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